Re: Hooks (was: Geiss)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> Onions connects *xo:k- with Old English _haca_ 'bolt', Old High
> German _ha:ko_ 'hook' and Russian _kogot'_ 'claw, iron hook'. It
> looks highly parallel to the rejected *xo:ki:n -_koza_ connection.

Adams in the EIEC lists the Russian and Germanic words together under
*ko(n)gos 'hook' (MIr <alchaing> 'weapon rack' being the evidence for
*n, I suppose), not even trying to explain the absence of the
Winterian lengthening. It takes Kortlandt to postulate *ko(n)g(n)os
here :)

Sergei